All Online retail & ecommerce articles – Page 522
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The Sun launches online shop
News Group Digital has launched an online price-comparison shopping portal for bestselling newspaper The Sun.
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The Sun launches online shop
News Group Digital has launched an online price-comparison shopping portal for bestselling newspaper The Sun.
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I Want One Of Those to slash IT costs with Suse Linux platform
I Want One Of Those is set to reduce its IT operational costs by 10 per cent after standardising its computing platform on Suse Linux Enterprise Server.
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Analysis
Shopping made e-asy?
Online sales are rocketing but, as competition on the web hots up, customer service is becoming ever more crucial. So can retailers’ web sites deliver the goods?
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The platform for growth
As e-commerce matures, can retailers gain an edge by developing their own web site, or are they better off with a service provider? Joanna Perry reports
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Best of both worlds
The explosion of online retailing has led some companies to reconsider the size and format of their stores, while others are carrying on regardless
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Return visits key to e-tail success
Encouraging shoppers to keep coming back for more is the key to success on the internet
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How far can we go online?
Although now more than 10 years old, e-tail is still in its infancy. So is the sky the limit, or are we approaching the peak? Charlotte Dennis-Jones looks into the future of e-tailing
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Mothercare mums’ forum to tap into craze for social networking
Maternity specialist Mothercare is to launch a social networking forum to more powerfully exploit its unique retail status
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John David to launch e-tail site for Scotts arm
John David Group, which owns JD Sports, will launch a transactional web site for Scotts, its fashion arm, before the end of the year
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Opinion
Time for online retail to grow up
Every year, we hear that it will be a record Christmas for online sales, that the internet is hurting the high street and that those retailers without a web presence will miss out. All undeniably true
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Analysis
Rules of attraction
Are the design rules for selling online the same as those that are used on the high street? John Ryan investigates the art of retailing on the web
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Platform for growth
As e-commerce matures, can retailers gain a competitive edge from developing their own web site, or are they better off working with a service provider? Joanna Perry reports
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Social networking: Retailers’ community challenge
The popularity of social networking is soaring and retailers want a slice of the action. Katie Kilgallen assesses the benefits
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Opinion
A New Look needed for windows
Sometimes, you have to ask why retailers do certain things and nowhere is this more the case than in the vexed topic of window displays.
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Online speed set to accelerate as broadband popularity rises
Communications regulator Ofcom has reported that about two-thirds of UK households now have broadband internet connections. It found that 3 million households signed up for broadband during 2006 and the average speed of internet connections has risen from 3.6Mbit per second in 2006 to 4.6Mbit per second by June 2007. ...
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Habitat closes in on e-tail as it rejigs site
Habitat has overhauled its UK web site this week in a move thought to be its first step towards creating a fully transactional site. The furniture retailer is testing an e-commerce platform in France as it considers a similar package for other markets. Habitat has refreshed its UK site with ...
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Reevoo woos retailers with relaunch
Online product review company Reevoo has relaunched its web site with a new service as it aims to double its retail customers over the next six months. Last month, Reevoo.com relaunched to drive traffic to retailer’s web sites. Customers click on the product review, choose from a list of retailers ...
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Sears underperforms in second quarter
Sales dwindle at both Kmart grocery chain and eponymous department store business